KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Five Americans and two other soldiers died when a Chinook helicopter was apparently shot down Wednesday evening in Afghanistan's most volatile province, a U.S. military official said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
Initial reports suggested the helicopter was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade, said the U.S. official, who insisted on speaking anonymously because the crash was still under investigation. NATO said there were no survivors. Along with the five Americans, two soldiers from Britain and Canada who had been passengers were also killed, military officials said.
NATO said the CH-47 Chinook was carrying a crew of five and two military passengers when it crashed. The cause was ``being determined by military officials,'' it said.
NATO said troops going to the crash site were ambushed by enemy fighters and the unit called in an airstrike ``to eliminate the enemy threat.'' It did not say if the troops were from the U.S.-led coalition, NATO's force or the Afghan army. One civilian was injured by gunfire.
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Poor Justice. Living over there in Riyadh, this is about as much excitement as he'll ever get, except for weekly Friday spittle-spew at his mosque. And gosh! if it's 11:16 a.m. in the eastern US, it must be at least Thursday evening over there in beeyootiful Saudi Arabia... and it's either post stupidities at Rantburg or go to the mall with the guys again to look at the moving black objects upstairs. Poor boy, the closest he gets to actually interacting with a non-related female is spewing his potty fantasies at me, which says something not very interesting about his upbringing.
Our TROLL seems to have a clear understanding of Duty and Honor. GFY Justice.
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Poor Justice. Living over there in Riyadh, this is about as much excitement as he'll ever get, except for weekly Friday spittle-spew at his mosque. And gosh! if it's 11:16 a.m. in the eastern US, it must be at least Thursday evening over there in beeyootiful Saudi Arabia... and it's either post stupidities at Rantburg or go to the mall with the guys again to look at the moving black objects upstairs. Poor boy, the closest he gets to actually interacting with a non-related female is spewing his potty fantasies at me, which says something not very interesting about his upbringing.
LOL! tw you did him/her a gudun!!
poor poor drag queen troll HAZ THOSE WEIRD SMELLY MAN PAJAMAS ON WHEN HE/SHE TROLLz!
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To our folks who just died serving in Afghanistan.. RIP brothers we owe you a debt that only Love can secure. You will be missed..
(SomaliNet) A remote controlled landmine bomb ripped through Ethiopian military convoy in Beledwein city 360km north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Wednesday killing at least four and wounding number of others, sources confirmed to Somalinet.
The governor of Beledwein Hussein Mohamed Malin blamed the latest bomb blast on the remnants of the defeated Islamists. We are pursuing the culprits and we will arrest them as soon as possible, said the governor.
According to Ali Hassan, one of local residents in Beledwein, the explosion happened inside the city around 9:30 am local time as convoy carrying Ethiopian soldiers was passing on the second bridge. One of their trucks tore apart when it ran over an anti tank landmine.
As soon as the blast cut through the convoy, the Ethiopian soldiers opened fire on all directions killing and wounding passersby.
They do seem to have a relaxed RoE, don't they.
The Ethiopians immediately sealed off the area of the blast and commenced house to house search, leading to the arrest of several innocent civilians.
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Dr. Steve, does the High Modi himself keep the RB 'Æ' under lock and key? Just wonderin... hummm
The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence on former senior AUM Shinrikyo cultist Seiichi Endo for killing 19 people and trying to kill others in the 1994-1995 sarin gas attacks by producing the nerve agent as a key architect of the cult's chemical weapons development program. Endo, 46, was sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court in October 2002 for the two sarin gas attacks and for a murder attempt in 1994 on a lawyer with sarin and of another attempt to kill a man with VX nerve gas, and had appealed the ruling.
The 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system left 12 people dead and thousands injured, and the 1994 sarin attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, killed seven and injured 144.
"The subway sarin incident was an atrocious and vicious act of violence that was dangerous and unprecedented in our country's crime history," Presiding Judge Osamu Ikeda said in dismissing Endo's appeal. "The defendant Endo was proactively involved in sarin production and his criminal responsibility is in no way lighter than that of others who carried out the crime."
The defense had argued that the death sentence was too severe as Endo, although he produced weapons, had been brainwashed by AUM founder Shoko Asahara, 52, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, and was not involved in executing the subway attack. Thirteen people have been given death sentences for the series of AUM crimes, and two of those have exhausted all avenues of appeal -- Asahara and Kazuaki Okazaki, a senior member convicted of murdering a lawyer and his family and an AUM follower in 1989. Appeals against the death sentences are under way for nine others at the Supreme Court and one -- by senior member Tomomasa Nakagawa -- is being heard at the Tokyo High Court.
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These boys played with a very weak homemade brew. Imagine if any of the 500+ "nonexistant" WMD chemical warheads picked up in Iraq had made their way to any mass transit systems in the US. Even degraded by time, they're probably a hundred times more lethal than the fix'ins these guys put together.
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I thought the same thing when some of the stuff found in Iraq were described as pesticides. A few insecticides could pinch hit for chemical weapons. Case in point Zyklon B.
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Police on Thursday captured eight more suspected al-Qaida militants, CNN-Turk television reported, raising the number of suspects caught in the recent sweep against the group to 19. The eight were detained in Ankara, the television reported, without giving any other details. Police officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the report.
On Wednesday, police in Istanbul detained 11 suspected militants who were allegedly planning to stage terrorist attacks in the city. Police have provided no details about the suspects' identities or about the target of their alleged plot.
A Pakistani businessman accused of illegally funnelling tens of thousands of dollars to the political campaigns of US senators Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer surrendered to the FBI on a year-old indictment on Tuesday, then collapsed in Los Angeles federal court, Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.
Ahah. The old swoon-in-the-courtroom trick, is it?
Looking tired and disoriented, Abdul Rehman Jinnah, 56, complained of chest pains and began shaking an hour into a contentious bond hearing before US Magistrate Judge Patrick J Walsh. The judge interrupted the hearing for nearly 30 minutes while paramedics attended to Jinnah. After Jinnahs condition was stabilised and he was taken to a local hospital for an examination, Walsh set bond at $300,000.
We notice he wasn't taken to the local hospital for treatment.
The drama unfolded shortly after Jinnah, who has a history of heart problems and diabetes, flew back to the US from Pakistan to answer charges by a grand jury that he engineered illicit donations to Ms Clintons political action committee and Ms Boxers 2004 re-election campaign.
Yep. Best government money can buy.
Officials from both campaigns have said they were unaware of the alleged wrongdoing and returned the contributions.
"No, no! Certainly not! Here! Take it back! We're done with it anyway!"
At Tuesdays hearing, Assistant US Attorney Dennis Mitchell urged the judge to deny Jinnah bond, arguing that he was a tremendous flight risk with a long history of financial misconduct that included five bankruptcy filings that had been dismissed by the courts.
'Nother words, he's not what you'd call "scrupulously honest."
Mitchell said authorities suspected that Jinnah returned to the US to face federal charges only because the government had initiated travel restrictions that made it increasingly difficult for the businessman to travel overseas. He could flee again if he believes he will be imprisoned, Mitchell said. But Jinnahs attorney, former federal prosecutor Douglas Fuchs, said that was absurd, noting that his client had voluntarily surrendered and faced only one to two years in prison if convicted.
"Yeah, yer honor! My client could do one or two years in San Quentin standin' on his head ..."
"But I..."
"... despite his history of diabetes and heart trouble!"
Born in Pakistan, Jinnah immigrated to the US in the late 1980s and settled in Northridge. Over the next decade, he tried his hand at a string of businesses and left a trail of angry creditors and former business partners. But by 2004, Jinnah had positioned himself as a point man who could help the Democratic Party tap the increasingly affluent Pakistani American community for campaign funds.
Not too good at making money for himself, but pretty good at causing others to cough up. I should be so talented.
He and his family personally contributed $122,000 to Democratic candidates and organisations that year and held events for Ms Clinton and Ms Boxer at his home. Stuart Schoenburg, 76, a Tarzana television producer charged as Jinnahs co-conspirator, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour count and is awaiting sentencing.
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Not too good at making money for himself, but pretty good at causing others to cough up.
Not quite right, Fred. Clearly Mr. Jinnah was plenty good at milking every penny from those involved with him, given that he had US$122,000 lying about that he could donate to politics. Unless he bilked his family, too. What he wasn't good at was establishing and running a viable business. But then, so long as there are enough suckers in the vicinity, that isn't really a necessary skill, is it?
Followup on Seattle's SJS (Sudden Jihad Syndrome) attack.
Moved to Home Front: WoT, since this attack was surely part of that.
SEATTLE (AP) - Naveed Haq, accused of shooting six women - one fatally - at a Seattle Jewish center last summer, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday as prosecutors tacked on 11 additional charges against him.
Haq, 31, who has a long history of mental illness, initially pleaded not guilty following the July 28 shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. But at a King County Superior Court hearing before Judge Paris Kallas, he changed it to an insanity plea for the 20 charges he now faces, including aggravated murder, attempted murder, burglary, malicious harassment, kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment.
The additional charges "more accurately reflect the extent of his conduct," said Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for the King County prosecutor's office. Haq now faces one burglary charge and one charge of malicious harassment, the state's hate-crime law, for each victim, as well as the unlawful imprisonment charge.
Trial is scheduled for January. Haq would receive life in prison if convicted of aggravated murder. King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng, who died last week, called the shooting one of the most serious crimes in the city's history, but declined to seek the death penalty because of Haq's history of mental illness.
Haq, who grew up in the Tri-Cities area of south-central Washington, has been treated for bipolar disorder, according to prosecutors, and a family friend said he had been getting psychiatric help for 10 years.
Prosecutors said Haq waited in the vestibule of the downtown Seattle building until 14-year-old Kelsie Burkum arrived to meet Cheryl Stumbo, her aunt. He put a gun to the girl's back and followed her up the stairs to the second floor, then started shooting when one woman tried to call 911. He said he was a Muslim angry about the war in Iraq and U.S. support of Israel. In other words - Sudden Jihad Syndrome
The shooting ended when Dayna Klein, then 17 weeks pregnant, persuaded the gunman to speak with an emergency operator after he shot Klein in the arm. He agreed to surrender, put his two guns down and walked out, hands on his head, court documents said. Klein later gave birth to a healthy boy.
Pamela Waechter, director of the center's annual fundraising campaign, was killed in the shooting.
Haq's next court date is a pretrial hearing scheduled for Nov.
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He's got a valid defense - as a Muslim (and a Jihadi one at that) he is obviously crazy. He certainly can't tell right from wrong, since he believes what he did was 'right'. It is equally certain he has no business being loose on the streets - ever. I prescribe a lobotomy - extensive.
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Glenmore,
Right, as a Pak Muz, insanity is a given. Get right past that. Guilty. Cook him. Does Washington have the death penalty ? They're pretty liberal up there.
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Don't the criminally insane have to stay in a locked ward until deemed cured? Given that after ten years of treatment he was capable of this kind of violence, how could the psychiatrists declare him so far improved as to be incapable of another bout of SJS?
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Fine, send him to one of those forgotten, run down, insane asylums that are teaming with roaches and rats. Tie him down to a rusty bed frame with piss stained sheets and leave him there to scream it out for about 30 years. When he is supposedly "cured", he can then be tried for the crimes and sent to state prison.
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If ignorance of the law is no excuse, why should insanity be? If comprehending law was a requirement to breaking it, then no one would ever be guilty the way the pols write the laws.
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I thought about filing this under WOT, and was really tempted but this didn't seem as part of the actual 'war' itself - I could be wrong. The mods can move it.
Since he was under treatment for 10 years he must have had it under some sort of control right? Was he refusing to take his meds?
Given that he would be placed in a institution in Washington state he'll probably be out in a couple of years.
Half of whom will be anti-gun Progressives who will close their eyes and shriek each time that thing in their hands goes "bang!", the other half of whom will bring their own guns... or fighting staffs, nunchucks, throwing stars...
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"Does Washington have the death penalty ? They're pretty liberal up there."
Unfortunately, No we do not.
parts of WA are so liberal and unwilling to hurt anybody that there is baseball league up here that not only doesn't keep score, but nobody is ever 'out', you can swing until you hit and other assorted BS.
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Since he was under treatment for 10 years he must have had it under some sort of control right?
Not necessarily.
'Bi-polar' covers a wide range of mental illnesses and about 20% of those diagnosed bi-polar aren't stabilized long-term by a drug regimen. A few will have one, or sporadic, psychotic episodes which are hard to predict or prevent. Those who have recurring psychotic episodes are often re-diagnosed as having schizo-affective disorder, which combines elements of the mood instability found in bi-polar with elements of the disordered thinking found in schizophrenia.
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Washington State does have the death penalty for aggravated first degree murder where there are no sufficiently mitigating circumstances to warrant leniency.
We also still have hanging.
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Those who have recurring psychotic episodes are often re-diagnosed as having schizo-affective disorder, which combines elements of the mood instability found in bi-polar with elements of the disordered thinking found in schizophrenia.
So you've met my sister-in-law, have you?
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Believing in Islam doesn't indicate insanity; just stupidity.
LOGANSPORT Logansport police responding to a theft report at local bar Tuesday ended up contacting the FBI because the man they arrested claimed to have terrorist ties.
Police were called at 10:22 p.m. to Polsis Bar at 1139 Erie Ave. to investigate the theft of a womans cell phone. The victim told police she had left her purse and cell phone on a table when she left the bar, and when she returned, her cell phone was missing. When she recovered it, she discovered a 20-minute international call had been made to Morocco at a rate of $5 a minute.
When police arrived, they questioned the man outside the bar, telling him he would have to pay for the phone call. The man reportedly told investigators he had no money and then began yelling obscenities and threats. Police say the man yelled he was with the terrorist group al-Qaida and he was going to kill Americans, including the police officer who was questioning him.
On the way to jail, police reported the man somehow got the handcuffs from behind his body and began thrashing about in an effort to exit the moving vehicle. The police officer stopped the vehicle and shot chemical spray into the mans eyes.
Patrons of the bar later found obscenities written in French and a message in what appeared to be Arabic.
Police booked 37-year-old Hamid Faiq of Logansport into the Cass County Jail on charges of theft and intimidation, both class D felonies, and public intoxication and disorderly conduct, both class B misdemeanors.
A report was made to the Department of Homeland Security and Faiqs information was passed onto the FBI, which placed a hold on Faiq until agents arrive today to interview him.
LPD Detective David Kain offered no comment on the credibility of the threat, but he said law enforcement must fully investigate all such comments. Police said Faiq had been in the area at least three years.
What the F**K ! What is a camel molester doing in Logansport ? I've been there a few times, maybe even in this bar. Between these scumbags and the Mexicans we are being overrun. Definitely prefer the Mexicans to these bastards. I wonder if they over stay visas or are they coming across the southern border too ?
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Can we make this guy an idiot of the day candidate?
Al
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Police said Faiq had been in the area at least three years.
Citizen, visa holder or illegal? If either of the latter, make him pay the lady's phone bill and the cost to clean up his obscenities written in the bar, then expel him back to Morocco. If a naturalized citizen, strip him of that just for claiming to be Al Qaeda, then expel him back to Morocco. If a born citizen (which I doubt, for some reason), convict and jail him -- after making him pay the lady's phone bill -- for both the theft and the terrorist threat. And in all cases pointedly examine every contact of his for the last four years, however slight the acquaintance, to check whether any of them have a connection to Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups... keeping him imprisoned until that's done. Let all who knew him come to regret the acquaintance.
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According to my buddy whose parents live near Bloomington, there is a huge mosque that's been built on the south side of Indianapolis in what used to be a corn field. He sees it when he gets of I-465 and heads south to Bloomington. Perhaps this muzzie is part of a local cell, got drunk and started shooting his mouth off. Man, times sure have changed since I grew up in Indy.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. The military did not identify the detainee who died or describe the manner of death. There are about 80 detainees from Saudi Arabia held at Guantanamo.
Guards at the U.S. Naval Base in southeast Cuba found the detainee unresponsive and not breathing in his cell Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. military's Southern Command said in a statement. ``They tried to save his life but he was pronounced dead,'' said Mario Alvarez, a Miami-based spokesman for the command.
They usually don't, but there are exceptions. Pity.
It would be the fourth suicide at Guantanamo since the prison camp opened in January 2002. On June 10, 2006, two Saudi detainees and one Yemeni hanged themselves with sheets.
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``They tried to save his life but he was pronounced dead,''
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Hey, can I have his Koran?
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Defense attorneys said the death was likely an act of desperation at a prison camp where detainees are denied access to U.S. civilian courts and isolated in their cells for up to 22 hours a day. "You have five and a half years of desperation there with no legal way out," said Michael Ratner, president of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. "Sadly, it leads to people being so desperate they take their own lives."
Ya breakin my fuckin heart, counselor...
Marc Falkoff, who is part of a team of attorneys representing 17 men from Yemen, said the suicide should be expected given the conditions at Guantanamo.
So we have more to look forward to?
"We've said all along that the guys are going to try to take their lives and that appears to be what happened here," Falkoff said. "It's just incredibly sad and it wouldn't happen if these guys were just given their day in court."
A Saudi Arabian detainee who apparently committed suicide at Guantanamo Bay had been held at the prison camp reserved for the least compliant and most "high-value" inmates, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.
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Marc Falkoff: what a guy can do to butcher a name like THAT!!!!there are probably members of this audience that have often wanted to tell a laywer to Falkoff!
/tip your waitress
Gunmen broke into the house of a Pakistani official and killed 13 people near a northwestern town where Islamist militants are active, police said on Thursday. The killings took place late on Wednesday in Gomal village, around 15 km (10 miles) southwest of the town of Tank in North West Frontier Province.
"We are investigating the motive behind the murder," Mumtaz Zareen, a senior police official in Tank, told Reuters.
The house belonged to Pir Aurangzeb, a senior official with the government-run power utility, WAPDA. Those killed included Aurangzeb, five members of his family and seven guests.
Turkey's top general said Thursday his army which has been massing troops on the border with Iraq was prepared to attack separatist Kurdish guerrillas in a cross-border offensive.
Gen. Yasar Buyukanit said the military was ready and awaiting government orders for an incursion, putting pressure on the government to support an offensive that risks straining ties with the United States and Europe and raising tensions with Iraqi Kurds.
"As soldiers, we are ready," Buyukanit said at an international security conference in Istanbul.
Although the United States has branded the guerrillas a terrorist organization, Washington fears that Turkish military action could destabilize northern Iraq the most stable part of the war-torn country. Washington is also concerned that supporting Turkey in an incursion could alienate the pro-American Iraqi Kurds.
Many Turks believe a major incursion would help finish off the rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which has been fighting for autonomy in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey since 1984. Turkey's human rights record has been stained by allegations of excessive use of force in the fight against the guerrillas in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people.
Turkey last carried out a major incursion into Iraq a decade ago, before the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. But separatist Kurdish guerrillas, taking advantage of a power vacuum in northern Iraq, have escalated attacks on Turkish targets. The military says up to 3,800 rebels are now based in Iraq, and up to 2,300 operate inside Turkey.
Turkish intelligence reports say that Iraqi Kurdish groups, which previously supported the Turkish military in fighting the guerrillas, were preparing defenses against a possible Turkish incursion into northern Iraq. Turkey fears that Iraqi Kurds want to establish an independent Kurdish state, which could revive the aspirations of separatist Kurds in Turkey.
Although the Turkish government promised to back the military, it has not so far asked Parliament for permission to deploy troops, anticipating problems with Washington, Iraq and the European Union all of which have urged Turkey to show restraint and find diplomatic ways to deal with the Kurdish rebellion.
Turkey frequently complains that the United States and Iraqi Kurds have done little to stop the separatist rebels.
On Thursday, Buyukanit denounced what he said was a lack of assistance from allies.
"Turkey does not receive the necessary support in its fight against terrorism," the general said. "There are countries which directly or indirectly support PKK terrorism." He did not identify those countries.
Public support for an offensive is high, especially following the recent killings of soldiers and a suicide bombing that killed six people. On Thursday, suspected rebels attacked a group of forestry workers in the predominantly Kurdish province of Bingol, killing four of them and wounding four others, officials said.
On Thursday, military trucks hauled more tanks and guns to the border area, local reporters said. The deployment has made it more difficult for the rebels to retreat to bases in northern Iraq, the military said.
Turkish troops, reinforced by planes and helicopter gunships, have killed 14 PKK guerrillas in operations near the border since Monday.
But the U.S. State Department said Wednesday it had seen no evidence of a significant movement of Turkish military forces in the border.
Past Turkish military incursions have yielded mixed results, with guerrillas sheltering in hide-outs and emerging again after most Turkish units withdrew.
Turkey set up a buffer zone along the 200-mile border in 1997, but gradually withdrew the bulk of its troops under international pressure, leaving about 1,000 inside Iraq. Those troops act as monitors, but have not pursued the rebels.
"To set up a buffer zone, Turkey needs to secure the consent of both Washington and the Iraqi Kurds," said Nihat Ali Ozcan of the Economic Policy Research Institute in Ankara.
"However, the military buildup clearly puts more pressure on U.S. and Iraqi forces to do something quickly."
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Seems to me like they're getting the same support for for an Iraqi invasion as they have us. Lifes a bitch sometimes Turkey.
That being said, any country willing to take military action against terrorists should be allowed to do so.
We should let Turkey know that we will not stop them, but we will be doing the urge for restraint thing. Unless they get too heavy handed.
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We should let Turkey know they missed their chance to go into Iraq several years ago. Any attack on sovereign Iraqi territory now should be treated as an attack on the U. S. By Iran or Syria or Turkey.
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I'm with Nimble -- you snooze you loose, bi@tch!
Encourage the Turks to build double-fence border protection instead.
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Our Kurd "friends" need to understand we have no support for the PKK, and may stay back from a Turkish assault. Let the Kurds police/constrain themselves. They've got what they wanted/deserved, pretty much, in Iraq, don't F*&k up!
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All I have to say is ... is there a single group int the mideast not trying to kill off another group?
A team of Apache attack helicopter pilots discovered and destroyed a heavily armed vehicle south of Radwaniyah at about 8:10 a.m., May 30.
The Apache team from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade observed the vehicle near a reed line of a canal. The vehicle had a heavy machine gun mount attached to the bed of the truck and re-enforced sidewalls with gun ports.
After coordinating with the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain tactical operations center, an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a camera was flown over the truck to observe the area. Once confirming the target and ensuring there were no civilians in the immediate area, the brigade authorized the helicopters to engage the truck.
The Apaches fired two Hellfire missiles and destroyed the vehicle.
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Just an amazing article. It is the write up of Michael's e-mail that was posted here the other day. Our guys are so good. Hopefully the Iraqis in Hit will learn from this that the rule of law CAN work and that it applies to everyone.
A battle raged in west Baghdad on Thursday after residents rose up against al-Qaida and called for U.S. military help to end random gunfire that forced people to huddle indoors and threats that kept students from final exams, a member of the district council said.
U.S. forces backed by helicopter gunships clashed with suspected al- Qaida gunmen in western Baghdad's primarily Sunni Muslim Amariyah neighborhood in an engagement that lasted several hours, said the district councilman, who would not allow use of his name for fear of al-Qaida retribution.
Casualty figures were not immediately available and there was not immediate word from the U.S. military on the engagement. But the councilman said the al-Qaida leader in the Amariyah district, known as Haji Hameed, was killed and 45 other fighters were detained.
Members of al-Qaida, who consider the district part of their so-called Islamic State of Iraq, were preventing students from attending final exams, shooting randomly and forcing residents to stay in their homes, the councilman said.
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While dead al Qaeda are always welcome, this really doesn't mean a whole lot. There is still no sign of Sunni and Shiite terrorists being offed by the locals. This is like a neighborhood banding together to run out a belligerent drunk but not touching the whores or drug dealers.
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber hit a police recruiting center in Fallujah on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 50, police said. U.S. forces backed by helicopter gunships clashed with suspected al-Qaida gunmen in western Baghdad in an engagement that lasted several hours.
At least 10 policemen were among the dead in the Fallujah attack, which occurred about 11 a.m., according to a police official in the city who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Fallujah, in restive ... obligatory descriptor
... Anbar province, is 40 miles west of Baghdad.
Police said the bomber detonated his explosives vest at the third of four checkpoints as he stood among recruits who were lining up to apply for jobs on the force. The center had only been opened on Saturday in a primary school in eastern Fallujah.
The U.S. military and Iraqi army and police were running the center along with members of Anbar Salvation Council, a loose grouping of Sunni tribes that have banded together to fight al-Qaida. Key question - will this scare the tribal counter-insurgency off, or inspire it?
Police stations and recruiting posts have been a favorite target of Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida through the course of the Iraq war.
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This was no doubt in response to Joe Klein's "NewsWeak" piece. This is less an attack than a sign that this war is first and foremost an info war. AQ uses the media far better than we. In fact, they play OUR media like a Stradivarius against us. I would urge all candidates, both Dems and Repubs, to reflect on ways to win in this arena. Win the Info War, in our media and theirs, on the Internet and in the Cafes and Schools, and the Cockroaches Lions of Islam are doomed to the very Gehenna to which they would condemn us.
Al Qaeda and the Media-Industrial Complex are de facto allies in this conflict. In broadest terms, that complex includes news, entertainment, advertising, and their ideological auxiliaries, the media-based activist industry and the leftist academic community. Since the 1960s, they have reflexively sided with, and exploited, any force that showed the ability to undermine those institutions and values that stand in the way of complete cultural dominance by the mass media.
The term "media-industrial complex" is my own but the related concepts are based on work done by Thomas M. Frank in his landmark cultural history, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
Taken together, the elements of the Media Industrial Complex constitute an unelected, unaccountable, and often utterly depraved shadow government.
Their power and agenda are not, of course, the result of some overarching conspiracy (though complicity with enemy forces is often concious), but of the internal culture of the media industries as that internal culture has developed since the early 1960s.
In many ways, the media don't work for the terrorists, the terrorists work for them.
(BTW, I am well aware of Frank's status as a major lefty. This really only enhances the credibility of his message, since he is essentially biting the hand that feeds his end of the ideological spectrum.)
BAGHDAD - Acting on a tip from local citizens, Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained a suspected terrorist cell leader during an early morning raid May 29. The alleged leader is accused of commanding a kidnapping and assassination cell that has been conducting extra judicial killings in the Baghdad area. The individual is also suspected of kidnapping a nuclear power scientist and murdering both the Director and Deputy of Citizenship and Naturalization.
One other individual present during the operation was also detained. No Iraqi or Coalition Forces were injured during this operation. Whaddabout baby ducks and fluffy bunnies, eh?
Coalition Forces served as advisors during this operation.
"Nice job, Achmed."
"Thanks, Tyrone."
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Great intel. Check out this study of the Sunni-Shiite conflict in Iraq:
Camp Echo, Iraq-- Multinational Division Central South Brigade Combat Team (BCT) and Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) conducted a successful military operation in Al Izza district in Al Kut city, in Wasit province.
Joint Iraqi Police detachment and MND-CS Brigade Combat Team conducted an operation dubbed Viper's Bite. The result of this operation, which involved close air support, resulted in Coalition Soldiers, along with the Iraqi police detained 13 persons suspected of insurgent activities. Three of them are on the most wanted persons list in Waist province. The rest of the detainees have been handed over to the Iraqi Police. The joint forces seized machine guns, rocket propelled grenades, 122 mm artillery shells and approximately 1500 rounds of small caliber ammunition during the Viper's Bite Operation,
"My soldiers always conduct their tasks with enthusiasm and commitment. I am proud of them," said Brig. Gen. Miroslaw Rozanski, the MND CS BCT commander, after the operation
It was a joint military operation of ISF and Coalition Forces which ended with success.
For more information, contact Maj. Szczepan Gluszczak, MND-CS Public Information Office. Miroslaw Rozanski and Szczepan Gluszczak? From the French contingent?
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HEy, se have a Sarkozy as president why couldn't we have Rozansky and Gluckzacks in our officer corps?
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No offense intended, JFM. It had occurred to me the names might also reflect Norwegian ancestry...
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It had occurred to me the names might also reflect Norwegian ancestry...
And Google sez: 17th Mechanized Brigade (Poland) (Brig. Gen. Miroslaw Rozanski)
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The more consonants in a name, the more likely it is to be Slavic. If pronouncing the name sounds like coughing up a hairball, it's probably German or Czech.
I grew up in the Chicago area, with neighbors and classmates named Miloshev, Jelencic, Szczech, Matousek, as well as Nakamoto, Abu-Gheida, Boodoosingh, Mastrantonio, Castellaneta. I come from a long line of Schlinzachs, Vogelsangs, and Gutswillers; and my own family couldn't agree on how to pronounce the Dinaric Alp surname I was born with. Rule of thumb for pronouncing your neighbors' names: Break these names into syllables and pronounce them with whatever confidence you can muster.
Officers from the U.S. Army battalion that freed 41 prisoners from an al Qaeda in Iraq hideout May 27 provided details on the operation yesterday.
U.S. and Iraqi soldiers were conducting operations in a town south of Baqubah when a local man approached them with information about the prison, Army Lt. Col. Morris Goins, commander of the 1st Cavalry Divisions 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry, told reporters in a teleconference from Iraqs Diyala province. Goins said he assigned D Company of the unit, commanded by Army Capt. Paul Carlock, to check out the report.
As the unit approached, the soldiers encountered 41 Iraqis who had been held by al Qaeda in Iraq, Goins said. They showed some signs of torture, the colonel said. We brought them back to an attack position, where we were able to give them some water, some food. The unit then took the men to a combat outpost, where they received medical attention. The American and Iraqi units killed seven al Qaeda fighters in the operation and detained another 30, Goins said.
Carlock said some of the men, mostly Sunnis, had lash marks on their backs and rope burns on their wrists and ankles. Some had been held as long as four months. He said their main diet was figs and water. One of the freed prisoners was a 13-year-old boy, Goins said, but most were provincial government workers and local merchants. Some Shiia hostages had been held at the prison, but al Qaeda had killed them all, the colonel added.
Goins and Carlock both said the operation shows that the local people are tired of al Qaeda in their communities. The coalition and Iraqi government forces are trying to drive a wedge between the terrorists and the population.
We try to every day meet with local Iraqi leaders and then also leaders of the tribes, Carlock said. This contact, the officers said, helps to widen the division between the insurgents and the local population and allows the forces to develop intelligence sources.
We have more sources today than we had yesterday and the day before that, Goins said. So it's a growing and increased basis of intelligence coming in to both the Iraqi security forces and the coalition forces. Goins said he hopes liberating the prison will have a positive effect on the attitude of the local citizens.
If I were a local Iraqi and I would see that 41 Iraqi citizens were detained by al Qaeda, coalition forces helped secure their freedom, provided medical attention, were able to get them back to their family, it would show me that the international and the coalition forces are here to assist the Iraqi people and (would) live a peaceful life, he said. He added that he hopes the 41 people freed in the operation and now back with their families will pass along their experiences to their friends and relatives.
The five Britons captured in Iraq could be used as bargaining tools to secure the release of hundreds of Shia prisoners of war being held in Basra
Iraqi police guard the building where the Britons were snatched A senior official in the Mahdi army militia told The Daily Telegraph that the captives - four security guards and a computer expert - had been taken to put pressure on Tony Blair and George Bush.
"We are holding the British until they release our brothers from Camp Bucca in Basra," the cell commander said. "There are hundreds there under British security, some of them for years. When they are released the British will be allowed to go."
Hundreds of US and Iraqi troops carried out raids yesterday in Sadr City - the Baghdad Shia suburb which is a Mahdi army stronghold - as more information about the kidnap became clear. Immediately after the Britons were snatched from a finance ministry building in Baghdad on Tuesday, they were driven to a "hostage holding" centre near Sadr City's Mudafra Square, from where they were expected to be moved frequently to avoid detection.
Whitehall's emergency response unit, Cobra, met again yesterday and Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, said officials were working closely with the Iraqi authorities and doing everything they could to secure the captives' "swift and safe release". Mr Blair, on a visit to Sierra Leone, said: "We know the dangers and challenges there but we shouldn't let those that are prepared to use kidnapping and terror succeed." The Foreign Office said there was "no firm indication yet" as to who was behind the abductions.
The Mahdi army official said the order to seize the hostages was handed down by Hassan Salim, the militia's leading figure. He said the group was seeking to emulate what it saw as the successful outcome of the recent seizure of the 15 British sailors by its allies in the Iranian government. He added that the militia's demands had already been passed to Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al Maliki, a Shia Muslim close to the Mahdi army's political wing.
There has been no official confirmation of any demands being made.
The official was directly contradicted by Sheikh Abdel al-Sattar al-Bahad, a senior aide to radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, to whom the Mahdi army is intensely loyal. He denied any involvement by the Mahdi army.
GardaWorld, the Canadian security contractor which employs the security guards, and BearingPoint, a US management consultancy which employs the computer expert, said they were continuing to hope for the men's safe release. Their identities have not yet been released. The men were snatched by up to 40 men, some in police uniforms. Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's foreign minister, said it had been known "for some time" that insurgents had infiltrated the police and security services. For the kidnappers to act with such confidence they "must have some connection", he added.
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For the kidnappers to act with such confidence they "must have some connection", he added.
Or, as Bobby said yesterday, plenty or Iranian training.
Yeah, I got 'em, right here. Send me a million bucks, cash, and I'll spring 'em.
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Maybe we can expose the Sadrite prisoners to some nasty pathogens, then swap them. Except for a few that get free colonoscopies first instead, and get their polyps replaced with some microphone/transmitters replacements.
BAGHDAD - The deaths of three more Iraqi journalists were reported on Wednesday, bringing the monthly total to nine and equalling the worst month on record for reporters in the Iraq war.
Abdul Rahman al-Isawi, a reporter for the independent National Iraqi News Agency (NINA), was taken by gunmen from his home in the village of Amiriyat al-Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, on Monday night, NINA and family members said. Gunmen entered his house and dragged him with his father and brother to a nearby orchard, where they shot them, Isawis cousin, Mohammed Hussein, told Reuters. Another five family members were killed in clashes with the unidentified gunmen, family members said. Isawi was 31.
Nazar Abdul Wahid, a reporter for the Aswat al-Iraq news agency and New Sabah newspaper, was gunned down in Amara, 365 km (230 miles) south of Baghdad, on Wednesday, said Aswat al-Iraqs Basra bureau chief Muhannad al-Saadi. He was standing outside a hotel with four other journalists when three gunmen in a car opened fire and killed him, Saadi said. Wahid, 38, was a father of three, he said.
Gunmen also killed Mahmoud Hakim Mustafa, editor-in-chief of Hawadith weekly newspaper, near his home in Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Monday, police said.
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Many (probably most) of these Iraqi reporters are brave folks trying to do the right thing, being murdered by the thugs who are trying to wreck a new Iraq. Though their style generally resembles that of an earlier era in the US, and to some extent still seen in Europe - clear sectarian or political line for each outlet - together they made up the raucous free market of info that is one of the unsung accomplishments since the invasion.
Jaded - or ignorant - Americans and westerners don't even think what a change it is for Iraqis to be able to channel-surf to compare coverage of major news stories, read different papers - and then conduct that sacred ritual of democracy, making up their own minds about where the truth lies. I saw it for over a year.
With all that is horrific and infuriating and disappointing in Iraq, don't forget that many Iraqis "get it" in a fundamental sense and literally risk their lives to play their part in a more open society. The police and army and their losses are high profile - the reporters have no t-walls, body armor, and often no weapons, but are frequently targets of the vermin we're fighting.
Two Hamas gunmen were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip Wednesday as the government vowed to keep up attacks on militants to try to stamp out persistent rocket fire.
Hamas political supremo Khaled Meshaal said in an interview his group will continue attacks despite Israel's pounding of targets in Gaza that has killed 50 people in the past two weeks, most of them gunmen. An early morning air strike in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza killed two Hamas militants, the group said, with the army saying it had targeted "armed terrorists."
Israel's powerful security cabinet met briefly, dismissing calls to intensify army operations in Gaza. But it said there would be no let-up in the current level of response, which has seen nearly daily air strikes. The cabinet rejected calls by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to restore a truce with militants, which lasted for six months before collapsing two weeks ago amid Palestinian factional fighting, a barrage of rocket attacks, and deadly retaliatory Israeli raids.
"Israel is not holding any negotiations with the terror organizations on a ceasefire," said the statement. Public security minister Avi Dichter said after the meeting that "all those who are sending the terrorists are a legitimate target."
G8 foreign ministers, meeting in Potsdam, Germany, called on Palestinian leaders to stop militants from firing rockets on Israel and urged the Israelis to show restraint in their response. They also called for Israel to "show restraint in its reaction to these attacks and to refrain from any measures which are not in accordance with international law." The escalating bloodshed in Gaza, which has included fierce factional fighting between rivals Hamas and Fatah, has threatened to torpedo efforts to revive the chronically dead Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
In Gaza, Abbas repeated his appeal.
"The Palestinian government has made it known that it is in favor of a reciprocal and simultaneous truce that will allow the Palestinian people to live in security," he said after meeting Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas. "The ball is in Israel's camp."
The Israeli raids have so far killed 13 civilians and 37 militants, mostly from Hamas, but have failed to halt the rockets. The army says nearly 270 projectiles have been fired since May 15, killing two civilians, wounding 20 others and sending hundreds fleeing from the southern town of Sderot, which has borne the brunt of the fire.
Hamas supremo Meshaal vowed in an interview with the UK's The Guardian newspaper that the group would continue to fight Israel, saying armed resistance would eventually drive it out of the occupied Palestinian territories.
"Under occupation people do not ask whether their means are effective in hurting the enemy," he was quoted as saying from his hidey-hole office in Damascus.
"The occupiers always have the means to hurt the people they control. The Palestinians have only modest means, so they defend themselves however they can."
Amid widespread concern over the spiraling violence, Abbas announced Tuesday he would meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week for the first time since April 15. Abbas has called for Gaza militants to stop the "futile" rocket firings so a truce can be restored with Israel in the coastal strip and expanded to the West Bank. He has proposed to the five main Palestinian factions a 10-point plan on a comprehensive truce with Israel. The groups, including Abbas's secular Fatah and the Islamist Hamas, are currently discussing the proposal with Egyptian mediators in Cairo, and those talks are expected to continue Thursday.
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Two Hamas gunmen were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip Wednesday as the government vowed to keep up attacks on militants to try to stamp out persistent rocket fire.
I found these pics some days ago and haven't had the time to post or ask RantBurgers to vet these them for accuracy [shop] and/or missile type?
Paleos run for cover as a missile fired by the Israeli military is seen nearly hitting its target during an Israeli air strike on Hamas' Executive Force building in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza strip, 25 May 2007. Warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip for a ninth day today as Palestinians continued to fire rockets into Israel despite a call from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas for a truce.
I'm thinking that perhaps 1000# JDAMs returned to the point of origin ought to do the job. Even if they picked remote locations for this, it ought to rattle the dishes in enough apartments to make folks think twice about it.
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It is fake. Look at the missile: it is nitid. The guy was phtopgraphing people so the obturation spede of his camera is set for the speed of running people and the missile should be very fuzzy.
Then look at the second photo, from the oposituion of the guy in green and yellow we can deduce it has been taken at the very least a quarter of second later (provided he is teh second Carl Lewis). That means the bomb or missile should be at the very least at an altitude of 50m.
Notice also that no one ducks. Strange. And with a bomb faling so close we should have several of the runners being knocked by the airblast or hit by shrapnel.
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Why are a dozen men standing in a field for no apparent reason? And why does someone have a camera out? Even after impact no one hits the ground. How did the man in the foreground of the second picture get into the frame so quickly?
I think its another Paleowood production.
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It is fake, all right, but accurate, heh.
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Insurgents detonated a roadside bomb in Yala early Thursday, wounding two soldiers on patrol critically, police said.
Pvt. Utthapol Homthai and Cpl, Weerasak Ponpai sustained injuries after the remote controlled bomb went off near a bridge where they halted for rest. Pvt. Utthapol, 22, was wounded in his leg while Cpl. Weerasak, 28, suffered a shrapnel wound in his head.
Some 1,000 Muslim students and villagers staged a demonstration at the Central Mosque in this southern border province [Pattani] to demand the lifting of state of emergency. The protesters said the state of emergency allowed the authorities to abuse the authority against the villagers.
The protesters also demanded the government to pull out paramilitary troopers from the province, saying the paramilitary troopers often killed innocent villagers.
COLOMBO - Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed a Tamil Tiger logistics base in the islands far north on Wednesday, hours after insurgents killed four soldiers in a clash in the northwest, the military said. The air strike near the rebel-held town of Puthukkudiyiruppu in the far north of the tear-drop shaped Indian Ocean island is the latest in a series of raids as the military pushes on with a declared plan to destroy Tiger war assets.
There were no immediate details of any casualties, or independent confirmation of what the jets hit. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were not immediately available for comment.
The air force took targets south of Puthukkudiyiruppu and bombed an LTTE logistics base, a spokesman at the Media Centre for National Security said, declining to give his name in line with protocol. It was successful.
Fighting is now focused on the north after the military captured the Tigers eastern stronghold, and Wednesdays clash is the latest in a string of land and sea battles in recent months.
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Excellent graphic Steve! The British Westland Lysander Recce/Covert Ops Aircraft. This platform flew across the channel and dropped a significant amount of valuable supplies as well as conducting other valuable missions behind enemy lines in the War.
Russian Foreign Minister suggests US is destabilizing situation
A military judge filed terrorism charges against 20 suspected members of an Islamic militant group fighting Lebanese troops at a Palestinian refugee camp, court officials said.
In Berlin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested the U.S. was destabilizing the situation in Lebanon by shipping weapons to the army for its fight against the militants drawing a pointed rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The Lebanese military has been fighting Fatah Islam militants at the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon since May 20. The camp is ringed by hundreds of soldiers backed by artillery and tanks in place to storm the camp. Fatah Islam has claimed to have more than 500 fighters with automatic weapons, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades inside the camp. The Lebanese government has vowed to crush the militants.
Fighting between the army and militants resumed shortly after sunset Wednesday at the camp on the outskirts of the port city of Tripoli. Army artillery blasted militant positions inside the camp to silence the source of fire. There was no immediate word on casualties. Several Fatah Islam suspects have been arrested in army raids on apartments in Tripoli in the past two weeks. It was not clear where the 20 militants were arrested.
The 20 included 18 Lebanese, a nonnative Lebanese and a Syrian. All were charged with committing terrorist acts that resulted in the deaths of soldiers and civilians, the officials said. The charges against them also include forming a gang with the aim of committing crimes against the people and undermining state authority. All 20 are in custody and if convicted, they could face the death penalty.
Sporadic gunfire exchanges have continued daily since a truce halted three days of heavy fighting. But renewed fighting that began before sundown Tuesday was the worst outbreak in violence in a week. Lebanese army artillery pounded positions on the northern edge of the camp and near the Mediterranean coastline, apparently to prevent militants from fleeing.
Since the fighting began, 31 soldiers, 20 civilians and about 60 militants have been killed. Thousands of Palestinians have fled the camp but thousands more are still inside, along with hundreds of fighters. The U.S. has airlifted planeloads of military supplies to Beirut to support the Lebanese troops in their battle with the militants.
Lavrov, speaking at a news conference of the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators in Berlin, was asked about the shipments and responded with a remark about "the necessity of avoiding weapons supplies that could destabilize the situation." Rice, sitting just to his right at the German Foreign Ministry, responded quickly that the U.S. was attempting to help rebuild the Lebanese army so it can defend the country against armed groups.
"The rebuilding of the Lebanese army is envisioned in any number of international agreements ... and that is what we are doing," Rice said. "We are supporting the Lebanese army, which is an all-Lebanese institution. It's not a matter of interfering in Lebanese affairs, it's an effort to help Lebanon to defend its own sovereignty."
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I remember the United States converting several LSTs to provide rocket attacks on unfriendly beaches during WWII. I think it's time to revive the approach, only using more reliable rockets in larger numbers. Anchor one of these ships off the coast opposite each paleostain "terrorist raining baserefugee camp". Give the paleos 24 hours to surrender to the Lebanon military, or start pounding. Since we don't have battleships to blow up things, these would be the next best thing. These "camps" (now permanent cities) need to be totally levelled and the people transplanted in Kyrgysistan or Siberia. They've given Lebanon nothing but grief since their inception in 1948.
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POTSDAM, Germany - Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight most industrialised countries on Wednesday pledged their unlimited support for the legitimate and democratic government of Lebanon.
In the final communique obtained by AFP after a day-long meeting in Potsdam, the G8 ministers called on Syria to refrain from interfering in neighbouring Lebanons affairs. The G8 gives its unlimited support to the legitimate and democratic government of Lebanon and strongly calls for a rapid solution to the current political standstill and to make progress towards national reconciliation.
The G8 ministers also supported the establishment of a special tribunal for Lebanon to investigate the murder of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, an issue at the heart of a political crisis that has paralysed the Lebanese government for months. The UN Security Council was expected to vote on Wednesday to decide whether to create a special tribunal.
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Dear Fred, I can only imagine the trials you've gone through in the last few days with sorting and barring specific ISP addresses. Thank you so much for all of the effort. I know all of us here have gotten a severe case of the heebie-jeebies from Rantburg deprivation, but none of that compares with the Herculean efforts you've been going through of late. Thank you for everything you to do to make Rantburg possible. Sincerely, Zenster
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Tried to Google Elaine, but the bloody Army still has her listed as OFF LIMITS!
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Welcome back, Fred. I think we've all missed you - and the lovely ladies. Anybody that targets Rantburg needs to be targeted in return. With JDAMS. You're one of a kind, and we appreciate it.
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Thanks Fred, for all you do. This site means so much to so many. It is simply an amazing resource from which to learn. Oh and Ms. Stewart has the look that says "Yes, I know what to do." Mmmmmmmmm.
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For those who're cut off from information on her:
In terms of combining publicity with career building, Elaine Stewart forms a triangle with Kim Novak and Tina Louise. All three gained enormous media attention in the 1950s, and all three aroused considerable - and loyal - enthusiasm from the general public. The careers of all three demonstrate that having substantial parts in good movies is essential for a career to prosper. Kim Novak, backed by a major Hollywood studio, was given substantial roles in movies and became a big star. Tina Louise was never promoted by a major studio, did not work in grade A movies, and did not become a big star. Elaine Stewart had a contract with MGM, but was never given large parts in their big productions despite public interest in her, and her career did not fulfill its potential.
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Tina Louise? Not a big star? That's nuts! She's Ginger on Gilligan's frikkin' Island. You don't get much bigger than that!
I always had a thing for Maryanne myself, but that's just me. Ginger is huge!
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Hawh, I named my horse Tina Louise when I was around 10 years old. She was a beautiful Appaloosa.
;)
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oh, and yes thanks Fred.
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You are a true patriot, Fred - and one helluva nice guy.
Today's payday - I'll transfer some money into my PayPal account, to be transferred to yours as soon as it clears. And it still isn't nearly enough for all you do.
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WB sir
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(SomaliNet) A remote controlled landmine bomb ripped through Ethiopian military convoy in Beledwein city 360km north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Wednesday killing at least four and wounding number of others, sources confirmed to Somalinet. 
The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence on former senior AUM Shinrikyo cultist Seiichi Endo for killing 19 people and trying to kill others in the 1994-1995 sarin gas attacks by producing the nerve agent as a key architect of the cult's chemical weapons development program. Endo, 46, was sentenced to death by the Tokyo District Court in October 2002 for the two sarin gas attacks and for a murder attempt in 1994 on a lawyer with sarin and of another attempt to kill a man with VX nerve gas, and had appealed the ruling.
A Pakistani businessman accused of illegally funnelling tens of thousands of dollars to the political campaigns of US senators Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer surrendered to the FBI on a year-old indictment on Tuesday, then collapsed in Los Angeles federal court, Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday. 
LOGANSPORT Logansport police responding to a theft report at local bar Tuesday ended up contacting the FBI because the man they arrested claimed to have terrorist ties.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. The military did not identify the detainee who died or describe the manner of death. There are about 80 detainees from Saudi Arabia held at Guantanamo.
Gunmen broke into the house of a Pakistani official and killed 13 people near a northwestern town where Islamist militants are active, police said on Thursday. The killings took place late on Wednesday in Gomal village, around 15 km (10 miles) southwest of the town of Tank in North West Frontier Province.
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber hit a police recruiting center in Fallujah on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 50, police said. U.S. forces backed by helicopter gunships clashed with suspected al-Qaida gunmen in western Baghdad in an engagement that lasted several hours. 
BAGHDAD - Acting on a tip from local citizens, Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained a suspected terrorist cell leader during an early morning raid May 29. The alleged leader is accused of commanding a kidnapping and assassination cell that has been conducting extra judicial killings in the Baghdad area. The individual is also suspected of kidnapping a nuclear power scientist and murdering both the Director and Deputy of Citizenship and Naturalization.
BAGHDAD - The deaths of three more Iraqi journalists were reported on Wednesday, bringing the monthly total to nine and equalling the worst month on record for reporters in the Iraq war.
COLOMBO - Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed a Tamil Tiger logistics base in the islands far north on Wednesday, hours after insurgents killed four soldiers in a clash in the northwest, the military said. The air strike near the rebel-held town of Puthukkudiyiruppu in the far north of the tear-drop shaped Indian Ocean island is the latest in a series of raids as the military pushes on with a declared plan to destroy Tiger war assets.
